baum. i'm lindsey's father. >> mr. baum is in the national guard in tennessee. >> what i'm here today to do is to appeal to everybody out there watching, please bring my daughter home. >> where is lindsey baum? she was taken just a short walk from a friend's house to her home in mccleary, washington. she never made it. >> i'm fixing to deploy to iraq. i would love nothing more than to see my daughter before i go. >> police haven't found any evidence to explain her disappearance. >> nothing that was found on the computer or on her cell phone has led to anything definite. it has afforded us the opportunity to talk to some more people, but nothing specific about her disappearance. >> and her dad is getting desperate. >> please, if you know anything, contact the hotlines. contact any 911 centers. please, bring my daughter home before i have to leave. i thank you. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. the mystery surrounding the sudden death of music superstar michael jackson intensifies. >

then she was reported missing. >> joining me right now, a very special guest, melissa baum, lindsey's miss baum, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> yes, ma'am. what is the latest in the search for your little girl? >> right now, they're still just following up on tips. they still are getting tips in, from my understanding, and they're following up. but at this point, there's -- we don't know of anything new. nothing has come up new. >> miss baum, a neighbor saw her on her way home and can verify that she was, in fact, alive at that time on the way home. do you know this neighbor? are you sure they saw lindsey baum? >> i know of one. >> yes. >> and, yes, she -- she's actually someone i work with, so she knows lindsey quite well. >> and about what time was that, melissa? what time did the neighbor spot her. >> about 9:15. >> and out to ian cope, i was surprised. it was still daylight, wasn't it? >> yeah, 9:30 in the evening out here is still daylight. in late june. it was still relatively bright outside at the time she went missing. to marc klass, marc, what do

where is lindsey baum? >> i'm lindsey's father.ould love nothing more than to see my daughter before i have to go. please bring my daughter home. >> vanished out of thin air is what it appears to be. there's nothing. >> it's very frustrating because we are not able to rule anything out because we have no evidence to point us in any specific direction. >> here's what detectives have to work with. 10-year-old lindsey baum was last seen walking home from a friend's house. she never made it the half mile to her house. >> we've activated a lot of search and rescue resources. we have between 50 and 60 searchers from counties throughout western washington. it's becoming highly unlikely that she is still in mccleary. the word's out. it's not out here just in washington but the word's been spread throughout the country that we're looking for lindsey, and we're trying to keep her picture and her face in everybody's mind. >> the father of this missing girl, set to be deployed to iraq in just days. out to jacob jones with the daily world. what

where were you the night lindsey baum disappeared. >> at a friend's house four blocks away. >> this isrrifying. very upsetting. >> it's been 3 days, the state patrol searched from the air, dogs combed the ground and crews sifted through wetland. >> her mother told police she left a friend's home. >> they know nothing other than she walked out their door. >> supposed to walk five blocks to get home. she never made it. with every passing hour, new worries that the friendly girl who would talk with anybody is in serious trouble. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. the mystery surrounding the sudden death of music icon michael jackson. ♪ you know it's thriller >> there is a lot of speculation mounting about michael jackson's death and whether it is related to prescription drugs. a nurse who worked with the superstar is making some pretty shocking claims. she says that jackson suffered from severe insomnia and claims she rejected his request for an extremely strong sedative called diprivan. >> he said, i really just need something that is going to help m

lindsey baum disappeared june 26th.police say she was taking a short walk from her friend's house to her home in mccleary, washington, but she never made it. they are still frantically searching for this little girl. her father is a member of the tennessee national guard. he hasn't seen her in about a year. earlier this week he made a personal plea for her safe return. >> i would love nothing more than to see my i have to leave. >> detectives say they have not found any evidence to explain her disappearance at this point. we're curious about you feel regarding this. should the army give lindsay's day a break or you notice he had no choice but to deploy to iraq at this difficult time. give us a call at 1-877-tell-hln. 835-5456. or e-mail us at cnn.com/hln and click under your views. you can catch this views, your comments and your name. standard text rates do apply here. we have been getting a lot of really interesting calls on this one. we'll air your responses throughout the day. thank you so much. >>> i'm jane velez-m

where is lindsey baum? will her dad be forced to leave the country without knowing his little girl's fate? >>> you're an important part of this show. give us a call, 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us at cnn.com/primenews. or text us at hlntv. start with the word prime. this is your chance to be heard. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to "prime news." i'm vinnie politan in for mike galanos. an odd denial coming from one of the potential fathers of jackson's two oldest kids. he was his friend and dermatologist for more than 5 years. klein reported he's the father of paris and prince. in an interview with abc's "good morning america" klein denied it. well, sofrt of. >> all i can tell you is that to my knowledge, i'm not the father of these children. but i'm telling you, if push comes to shove, you know, i can't say anything about it. but to the best of my knowledge, i'm not the father of these children. >> to the best of your knowledge? that's an interesting phrase. >> i can't answer it in any other w

>> first of all, a couple of weeks ago, we were dealing with a case with a child named lindsey baum in utah i believe it was out at 9:30 at night. it feels determined through several sources that it was still light enough at that time for the child to be out. so i don't think that we should draw any conclusions that it was pitch black in boise, idaho, which isn't sort of a northern lights at that time at night. in order for law enforcement to solve this case, they have to eliminate certain individuals. this is such a filthy family. there's so much crime involve in this family, cracking heads like walnuts, not being allowed to be with little kids. being married to somebody that stabs your son. there's so much crime that it's going to be difficult for law enforcement to eliminate these particular individuals so they can move on to the other possibilities. also, once the public hears about this, they are going to be much less inclined to go out and try to help find the little boy for the simple reason that they probably will think something happened? >> first of all, none of those people

direction. >> with their daughter missing, lindsey's parents, who are divorced, marked her 11th birthday on july 11th with an appeal for her safe return. scott baum's father, is set to return to iraq soon, adding emotion and urgency to the investigation. >> please bring me my daughter home before i have to leave. >> the investigation has shocked people in the town of mcclear which, with a population of less than 12,000 people. >> these things don't happen in a small town, and yet here we are. >> injoing us from mccleary, washington, are lindsselindsey' parents, scott and melissa baum, as well as police chief george crumb. good morning. melissa, let me begin with you. can you take us back to that night two weeks ago, and as briefly as you can, can you describe how you realized your daughter was missing. >> she didn't get home in time, or by the time she was supposed to. so i called her friend's parents, and they said she had left there 30 minutes prior. so we went looking for her at that point. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say after about 40 minutes of both myself and her friend's parents driving around looking for her, we realized that som

adorable 11-year-old lindsey baum has been missing for two long weeks now with virtually no leads. washington police have been forced to scale back their search. meanwhile, lindsey's poor dad has been called up to fight in iraq with the tennessee national guard. he's expected to fly out next week. how can he be expected to perform in a life-and-death situation in iraq when his daughter is probably in a life-and-death situation right here? uncle sam needs to step in and do the obvious right thing -- postpone his deployment so he can look for his precious child. i'm jane velez-mitchell, and that's my issue. >> don't miss "issues tonight" with joe jackson saying he and his wife katherine would be the best people to care for michael jackson's children. will debbie rowe follow through on her reported attempt to file a restraining order to keep joe away from the kids? watch "issues" every night at 7:00 on hln. >>> when a replica of the statue of liberty was stolen from outside a new york coffee shop, no one had any idea what lay in store for it. but when this video was mailed anonymously